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Sculpting a New Dallas

E D U C AT I O N Young track stars go as fast as legs will carry them 11

HIGHLAND PARK COUPLE MOLDS ART FOR THE MASSES 37

BUSINESS One door closes, another opens for Snider Plaza shop 12

L A F I E S TA Turn back the clock: Founders honored at 30th ball 19 GIFTS

Pick the perfect present for your padre this Father's Day 17

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Why has nobody fixed the traffic problems at Preston Center? 39

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How a Cistercian senior switched sports and wound up at UT 1B

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ecently our neighborhood hosted a couple of social events and it reminded of my neighborhood as a kid. During my middle school and high school years, I lived in the Gatewood historic neighborhood in Oklahoma City, where everyone knew each other and all the children played together. The neighborhood kids were mostly at our house because with all my siblings (well, eight of 13) still at home, there was always someone to play with. The neighborhood hosted block parties, and my younger siblings and their playmates would put on plays and musical performances for the parents. I babysat for several of the young families, and when I saw our neighbors outside, they talked to me, asked about school, my siblings and my parents. I’m sure my folks felt pretty safe and secure that there were others watching out for us. After my dad died when I was 13, it felt like the entire neighborhood rallied around my mom and adopted us — although as a teen, it was a bit of an annoyance when I was trying to get away with something, like sneaking out. Neighbors can turn out to be great friends; I’m still in touch with one of those neighbors. She became a mentor to me and I consider her and her family part of our own. The neighborhood where we live now and where we raised our kids is very similar in many ways — established, with

older homes and beautiful mature trees. Although there weren’t nearly as many neighbor kids for our children to play with, when they were old enough we felt safe to let them roam and explore on their own. We’ve got some great neighbors, and we look out for each other — pick up the paper when out of town, take care of plants and animals and on occasion, have a meal together. We consider them good friends. Through my church, we do some outreach to the poor and I’ve been in a number of neighborhoods that don’t feel family-friendly. I wonder when I see the kids there, do they worry about their safety, and do they have people looking out for them? How fortunate we are that for the most part in our Preston Hollow or Park Cities neighborhoods, we can feel safe and secure. PatMartin,Publisher pat.martin@peoplenewspapers.com

C L A R I F I C AT I O N In our May issue, the “Keeping Tabs” column discussed a new police department for Highland Park ISD, but neglected to mention that the department will consist

of just one person. Mark Rowden, HPISD director of safety and security, will work with other local law enforcement agencies on matters pertaining to the district.

POLICE ............................................................. 4 EDUCATION ................................................... 8 BUSINESS ...................................................... 12 FATHER'S DAY .............................................. 17 LA FIESTA ..................................................... 19

SOCIETY ........................................................ 24 FOCUS ON PHILANTHROPY................... 29 LIVING WELL .............................................. 30 COMMUNITY .............................................. 34 CLASSIFIEDS .............................................. 40

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POLICE SKU LD U GGE RY of the M O N T H PA I N O N T H E NE CK An employee of the Alexander McQueen store at Highland Park Village reported that shoplifters stole two scarves during separate incidents on April 24 and April 25. The employee became aware of the malfeasance during an inventory of merchandise. In the second theft, the suspect is a woman who took something from the nearby Vince store later the same day. She remained in the store for 20 minutes after tucking the $365 scarf into her purse, purchasing a bag and a separate scarf and filling out a customer contact card with her personal information. That woman has an extensive criminal history involving theft.

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pring typically brings out the worst from our inevitable neighborhood car burglars, so it's a good idea to lock your vehicles. That's solid advice any time of year, of course. That way we won't need outcomes like the one on the night of May 12, which began with a thief fleeing on foot from a car in the 4500 block of Belclaire Avenue after a resident watched him take a bag out of their driveway. A 911 call led Highland Park Department of Public Safety officers one block east, where one of them spotted a man who matched the description given by the caller. He found another unlocked car there, and was trying to hide by crouching down in the driver's seat. He was arrested and later

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connected to two other incidents. For starters, he had a garage-door opener that was traced to an iron gate in the 4300 block of Belclaire, where a gold 2007 Mercedes had been rummaged through. On the same night, the same suspect stole a white 2010 Mercedes after finding it in a nearby porte-cochere, unlocked and with the keys inside. That car was found abandoned in the 4500 block of Versailles.

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N O TA B L E I N C I D E N T S H I G H L A N D PA R K May 4 At 10:19 p.m., a thief stole a silver Lexus SUV while its owner was unloading groceries in the 3400 block of Gillon Avenue. The boyfriend of the vehicle’s owner began searching for it, eventually tracking it to where Gillon dead-ends at the Katy Trail, where the larcenist fled on foot into the woods. Another officer detained someone matching the suspect description near the intersection of Knox and Travis streets, but the Lexus owner couldn’t identify him. Nothing was stolen from inside the vehicle. May 6 At 4:30 p.m., an officer was transporting a stray bulldog captured in the 3900

block of Potomac Avenue to a Dallas animal clinic for confinement in a white 2013 Dodge pickup when the dog bit several chunks out of the fiberglass camper top, as well as destroyed the wiring that powered the emergency lights. May 17 At 8:12 a.m., a Frisco man called HP police after his black 2012 Suzuki sedan was impounded in the 4400 block of Lorraine Avenue. The car’s owner said he loaned it to a "friend," who later told him that it had been stolen at the Galleria, and that she threw away the keys, but that she didn’t want a stolen-vehicle report filed and wouldn’t talk to the police. When the cops found the car, however, the keys were in the console.

3,000 Value, in dollars, of four North Star power washers stolen between May 8 and May 11 from a construction site in the 4700 block of Preston Road.

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U N I V E R S I T Y PA R K May 4 Between April 27 and May 4, a thief stole a $300 Trek boys bicycle from a detached carport in the 4100 block of Grassmere Lane.

a $40 Kate Spade wallet, and a $15 bag.

May 6 Between 11:15 p.m. on May 5 and 12:15 a.m. on May 6, a burglar broke into a silver 2001 Honda in the 6400 block of North Central Expressway and stole a $1,500 Canon digital camera and $200 in cash.

May 8 Between 8 p.m. on May 7 and 7:19 on May 8, a thief stole four tires and rims from a silver 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe in the 3000 block of Hanover Street. During the same time frame, a miscreant took four tires and rims from a silver 2015 GMC Yukon in the 4000 block of Hanover, and from a black 2015 Yukon in the 4500 block of Stanhope Drive.

May 7 At 4:56 p.m., a burglar broke into a silver 2009 Lexus sedan in the 2600 block of Westminster Avenue and stole a $2,100 MacBook Pro laptop computer, a $1,400 Louis Vuitton purse, a $300 iPhone,

May 9 Between 2:10 and 2:24 p.m., a burglar stole a $40 Coach purse containing $250 worth of cosmetics and $40 in cash from a black 2013 GMC Yukon at University Park United Methodist Church.

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E D U C AT I O N HPISD Policy Addresses Residency Concerns Complaints spur probes by district By Sarah Bennett

People Newspapers This year, the typically separate spheres of Lake Highlands and Highland Park collided when Dallas City Council candidate Adam McGough’s residency was called into question. The candidate, runAdam ning for a Lake McGough Highlands seat, had maintained a small condo on Lomo Alto Drive so his children could attend Highland Park schools before eventually transferring them to Scofield Christian School. In February, Highland Park ISD announced it was conducting an investigation of the McGough family residency. By the end of April, the administration announced the investigation was closed and it would make no further comment on the findings. The saga begs the question: how exactly does HPISD go about residency investiga-

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Many properties, such as this one, are available for lease near HPISD campuses. tions? With enrollment skyrocketing at a much faster pace than facilities can accommodate, many families will do anything to get their kids in the prestigious district. Here’s how the investigation typically goes: when a complaint is raised and formally filed regarding any student’s residency, background information is gathered by the student and the district’s ad-

ministrative services coordinator as well as the campus administrator. That means examining the student’s listing in the district database, proof of residency on file with the district, and online tax records for claimed residences. “Typically [we receive complaints from] a community member, and it’s usually a call,” HPISD student services coordinator Cristy Hirsh said.

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“A handful are anonymous calls. Some come from principals or assistant principals.” The district will also look at the tax records of any other residences under the family’s name online to help determine whether the Park Cities address is the primary residence. “If the research doesn’t yield an explanation and the circumstances still seem uncertain, two options are considered,” HPISD spokeswoman Helen Williams said. The district will either “observe” the residence for indications of use, or the parents are contacted to schedule a home visit. “In the past, we’ve had a designated person for that. We don’t currently have one,” said safety and security director Mark Rowden, who spent 30 years in law enforcement before coming to HPISD. “Basically by default, because of my experience, that’s just kind of fallen to me.” Finally, all of the information gathered returns to the campus administrator and is discussed with the parents. If the requirements are not being met, the family is given a certain timeline to comply or the student will be withdrawn. Parents can then appeal to the superintendent or a designee, if they so desire, and the stu-

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Safety Concerns Drive HPHS Senior to Develop App By Todd Jorgenson

People Newspapers Like many of her teenage peers, Amy Liu grew up fascinated by technology. But she later realized her greater interest might be not as a user, but as a developer. That passion for programming eventually led the Highland Park High School senior to a scholarship from The Flatiron School to build web and mobile applications for social change during an intense two-week summer program in Austin. Liu traces her love for coding and web development to a computer programming class during her junior year. “I’ve always been pretty

tech-savvy, but I was pretty ignorant to what happened behind the screen,” Liu said. “It requires a lot of technical skill and logic, but also allows you to be really creative.” Liu later joined the computer science team at HPHS and started building websites and databases for various school clubs. She also participated in few local “hackathon” events — intense 24hour coding competitions during which hopefuls aim to solve a problem and create an app starting from scratch. “You learn a lot in those 24 hours,” Liu said. “I made some really cool apps with my team.” A recent event had a travel theme, so Liu’s team created a logistics app to help people ship

HPHS senior Amy Liu hopes to develop an app to enhance vehicle safety during an immersion program with The Flatiron School this summer in Austin. C O U R T E SY PHOTO

packages around the world. The group won first place in its category. For her Flatiron scholarship application, Liu designed an app that would help prevent small

children from being left unattended in hot cars with an alert for drivers. “There’s a problem in a lot of places where the weather gets really hot in the summer and

people forget about their kids in the car. I wanted to build an app that could prevent this,” Liu said. “This issue has affected my family before, and I know how traumatic and frightening it could be.” Liu hopes to continue developing the idea during the summer program, which is offered in 11 cities around the country. “Flatiron gives students the tools they need to get jobs as software engineers,” said Flatiron School president Adam Enbar. “We give students the same skills that are in use at some of the best technology companies in the world.” In Liu’s case, she aims to get a head start on pursuing a software engineering degree at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Students dipped candles, wrote with feather quill pens, and learned about colonial muskets, uniforms, and ammunition.

Angie Cooper and Renee Brown help Lang Cooper and Jack Wyma make candles.

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Under state law, it is a criminal offense to falsify information for enrollment. HPISD has never hired a private security firm for an investigation, and no complaints have ever been formally filed regarding the district’s protocol. Each year, families with children in the district must prove their residency (usually with a utility bill) submitted online or in person. This year’s deadline is July 6. Emailsarah.bennett@ peoplenewspapers.com

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dent stays in the school for the duration of the appeal. McGough declined comment on the investigation into his family. This year, the district has had 22 complaints. The results were split down the middle: 11 were found to meet the residency requirements and 11 were not. Five of those out of compliance moved to the district, and six withdrew altogether.

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Graduation Traditions Continue at HP

t’s that time of year again to turn tassels, toss caps, and lose yourself in a sea of gold and blue (oh, and did we mention the bagpipes?). Highland Park High School returned to its usual Moody Coliseum venue last year, following renovations and rerouting to Allen Event Center in 2013. We’ve got the rundown of graduation events and details so you can properly celebrate the graduates — all 535 of them. —Sarah Bennett

MAY 28 n Honors Day Breakfast — HPHS seniors, HP Cafeteria, 9:15 a.m. n Honors Day Assembly — HPHS seniors and parents (limited seating), Palmer Auditorium, 10 a.m. MAY 29 n Graduation — SMU's Moody Coliseum, 7 p.m.

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The class of 2014 toss their caps at Moody Coliseum at last year's commencement ceremony. Be sure to check next issue and parkcitiespeople.com for graduation coverage.

College Acceptance List from our Class of 2015 Abilene Christian University Adrian College Agnes Scott College Allegheny College American University Arizona State University Auburn University Austin College Baylor University Belmont University Boston University Bryn Mawr College Centenary College of Louisiana Chapman University Clark Atlanta University Clemson University (Calhoun Honors College) College of Charleston Colorado College Colorado School of Mines Colorado State University The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art Cornell College Creighton University Dartmouth College Denison University DePaul University DePauw University Drexel University Duke University Durham University Eckerd College Elon University Emerson College Emory University Fordham University Furman University The George Washington University Hampshire College Harvard University

Hendrix College Howard University Indiana University Iowa State University Johns Hopkins University Kansas State University Louisiana State University Loyola Marymount University Loyola University New Orleans Marquette University Midwestern State University Millsaps College Missouri Valley College Montana State University, Bozeman New York University Newcastle University Northeastern University Nova Southeastern University Oklahoma Baptist University Oklahoma City University Oklahoma State University Pace University, New York City Pepperdine University Purdue University Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rhodes College Rice University Sam Houston State University San Diego State University Santa Clara University Seattle University Seton Hall University Southern Arkansas University Southern Methodist University (Honors) Southwestern University Spelman College St. Edward’s University Stanford University

Stephen F. Austin State University Syracuse University Texas A&M University Texas A&M University - Commerce Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi Texas Christian University Texas Southern University Texas State University Texas Tech University Texas Woman’s University Trinity University Tufts University Tulane University The University of Alabama The University of Arizona University of Arkansas University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Santa Cruz University of Chicago University of Colorado at Boulder University of Dallas University of Denver University of Edinburgh The University of Georgia

University of Hartford University of Houston University of Kansas University of Manchester University of Mary Hardin-Baylor University of Maryland, College Park University of Miami University of Michigan University of Mississippi University of Missouri University of Missouri, Kansas City University of New Mexico The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University of North Texas University of Northern Colorado University of Oklahoma University of Oregon (Robert D. Clark Honors College)

University of Richmond University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma University of South Carolina University of South Florida University of Southern California University of St. Andrews University of Tennessee, Knoxville The University of Texas at Austin The University of Texas at Austin (Liberal Arts Honors) The University of Texas at Austin (Plan II Honors) The University of Texas at Dallas The University of Texas at El Paso University of Tulsa University of Utah University of Warwick University of Washington Washburn University of Topeka Washington and Lee University Washington University in St. Louis West Texas A&M University Western State Colorado University Whittier College Xavier University of Louisiana

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Harrison Piering, Armstrong, first-grade long jump

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Sixth-grader Ella Patterson sets a new record for girls high jump, clearing 5 feet.

Armstrong's Beau Lilly crosses the finish line a step ahead of Hyer's Ethan Scott to win the fourth-grade 4x100 relay.

Cooper Moore, UP, tied for first in third-grade high jump, clearing 3 feet, 10 inches.

First-graders react to rain before their 50m race.

First through sixth-graders competed in the annual Park Cities YMCA Track and Field Meet at Westcott Field at SMU on May 8 and 9. See more photos at parkcitiespeople.com. Records set are as follows: Sixth-Grade Girls: n Mile: Emily-Jane Cox, 5 minutes, 35.57 seconds, Providence Christian School nHigh jump: Ella Patterson, 5 feet, University Park/Armstrong team n4x100 relay: UP/Armstrong team, 55.44 seconds Sixth-Grade Boys: nMile: Luke Rakowitz, 5:31.85, Cistercian UP third-graders Grace Spillman, Georgia Stephens, Caroline Jirovec, Sydney Biediger, and Molly Saunders (back).

University Park's Hattie Patterson beats Hyer's Raina Pietrzak in the fourth-grade girls 50 meters.

Fourth-Grade Boys: n400: Beau Lilly, 1:05.36, Armstrong

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BUSINESS Snider Plaza Original Not Closing Its Doors Relocation allows for expansion By Sarah Bennett

People Newspapers Pierce Hardware has been, shall we say, a fixture in Snider Plaza since 1939, making it one of the shopping center’s original tenants. But this month, that will all change. That’s because Pierce Hardware is moving to a new showroom on Mockingbird Lane. The new location, as it intersects with Denton Drive, is not far from Love Field. “We’re excited about the move, but we’re sorry to leave Snider Plaza, as you might imagine,” company president and University Park resident Mike McKenzie said. “We don’t feel like we’re leaving the neighborhood. We’re going to be close enough for our main customer base. We feel like we’ll be able to better serve them in the new location.” Increased parking and neighborhood convenience are just a few added decorative features. But it’s the larger showroom space that’s the nuts and bolts of the move. “We need to be able to have working displays and we just weren’t going to be able to do it here very effectively,” McKenzie said.

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To get down to technicalities, the Snider Plaza shop is 1,500 square feet; the new showroom is 5,000. That means much more

space for floor models, including some that are equipped for actual demonstrations. The new location will display 10 bathtubs and 18-20 toi-

lets, and 20 kitchen sinks, in addition to the company’s usual selection of luxury knobs, pulls, and locks. That comes in handy for both the company’s remodeling clients and new construction clients, many of whom need to incorporate design elements early in the process to accommodate certain features. “Our showroom, the way it’s set up today, you come in here when you’re ready to pick your finishes,” chief operating officer Erin Bittner said. “In the new showroom, we’re going to

give you something to see well before that. This is structural stuff.” But with all the new elements going on, Pierce Hardware wants to keep some things the same. For one, the company is still focused on its customers and community feel. “It really doesn’t change who we’re going to serve or how we’re going to serve them,” McKenzie said. “We’ve always been focused on providing high-quality products with a high service level with experienced sales consultants.” The company got started in 1937, two years before Snider Plaza’s opening. The store has seen six different owners in its 78-year history, starting with Marvin Pierce. Employee Jim Caskey’s father also owned the shop for a time. He has worked with the company for 50 consecutive years, not counting those first years in high school. “I started here when I was a freshman in high school. That would have been 60 years ago in 1955,” Caskey said. “I waited on all the grandfathers.” It’s that longevity of relationships that Pierce Hardware hopes to continue even through its move. “It’s symbiotic in a sense that you need that dependency. We need those repeat customers, but we need a staff that stays in order to develop that,” Bittner said. “This is about information and experience that you’re buying when you shop with us.”

Restaurant Crew Stirs in Mexican, French Flavors By Sarah Bennett

People Newspapers When most diners think of fusion cuisine, French and Mexican is probably not the first combination that comes to mind. But that’s the latest idea from the Misery Loves Co. crew of Proof and Pantry fame. The foursome — Michael Martensen, Jeremy Hargrove, Kyle McClelland, and Sal Jafar — were going for that element of surprise when concepting Madrina, a new restaurant coming to The Shops of Highland Park this summer. “Obviously you see a lot of

Mexican restaurants, so we wanted to take something people are familiar with and comfortable with as a gateway cuisine but find a way to our version of it,” said Jafar, who attended St. Mark’s and SMU. Nosh Euro Bistro previously filled the spot, but once the transformation is complete, it will be home to a blend of different cultures. “It’s very understated Mexican elegance-slash-French elegance,” Hargrove said. Dinner will be served for the first month, but the quartet plans to release a lunch and/or brunch menu later. So

far, they’re perfecting standard types of items, from shared plates to entrees, but how chef McClelland crafts those selections is a work of art. “We don’t want to have five great things out of a 30-item menu, we want to have 20 amazing things out of a 20-item menu,” Martensen said. Madrina will also be spirit-friendly, to honor its dual roots. “Right now, our entire wineby-the-glass program is all French,” Martensen said. “On the liquor side of things, with

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Michael Martensen, Sal Jafar, Jeremy Hargrove, and Kyle McClelland will launch Madrina this summer.

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BUSINE S S CONTINUED FROM 12 the mescals and tequilas … everything that is back there is back there for a reason. It’s not because a brand says it’s the best tequila. I’ve gone down to Oaxaca and slept in the dirt and spent time with the maestros.” French liqueurs such as cognac and Armagnac will be offered as well. In addition, Madrina will host chef’s tastings with McClelland to get an inside peek at certain dishes. “Taking these two cultures and bringing them together is something like it used to be like,” said McClelland, who was trained at the French Culinary Institute. “You can see it in the baking, and you can see it in a lot of different aspects of the food. People perceive French food as heavy, and making it lighter gives people a new aspect.” As for the name, “madrina” means godmother in Spanish, nodding to the restaurant’s roots and inspiration. “It’s all about the familial dining — having friends that you dine with and break bread with — they become family,” Hargrove said. “Madrina is godmother, and it’s making your friends family. That’s how we want to dine; that’s how we want to live. We’re making it a lifestyle.”

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Hopkins Appointed As CREW Director Kimberly Hopkins has been named the executive director for the Dallas chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women. Hopkins was hired by CREW Dallas in 2008 as chapter administrator, and in 2011 became director of operations for the nonprofit organization of commercial real-estate professionals.

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OF FAN-TASTIC DEBUTANTE FUN Ball began in effort to save house By Sarah Bennett People Newspapers When the powers-that-be with La Fiesta de las Seis Banderas had to choose this year’s honorary chairs, they went with the three people who started it all: Pierce Allman, Lindalyn Adams, and Jennie Reeves. After all, it’s the 30th anniversary of the celebration. For Allman, Adams, and Reeves, the ever-popular debutante ball all began with a house — the oldest house in Highland Park. “The couple that had bought it wanted a new home and were going to tear it down, and we thought, ‘You know, this house has some history,’” Allman said. With Allman the past president and Adams the standing president of the Park Cities Historic and Preservation Society, they knew they could get something done. First, Adams met with the realtor. “This darling girl came around the corner of the house at Lexington and Abbott, and it was Jennie Reeves,” Adams said. “She was very engaged in keeping it as it was and

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preserving it.” Adams was also highly involved in Old City Park — now Dallas Heritage Village — so they decided that was the perfect spot to preserve the home. Residents such as Kirk Dooley helped fuel motivation from

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Hannah Nicole Davis Duchess of Chichen Itza

Sara Catherine Keith Duchess of France

Margaux Louise Mullinix Duchess of the Lone Star

Elizabeth Lowrie Reniger Duchess of Spain

Theresa Elizabeth Lauren Baker Duchess of the Great Lakes

Lindsey Nicole Elliott Duchess of the Mississippi River

Katherine Scott Krikorian Duchess of the Cherry Blossoms

Chandler Leigh Myers Duchess of San Miguel de Allende

Marie Clark Baldwin Duchess of Monticello

Gail Van Winkle Ewing Duchess of the Magnolia

Kaelson Elizabeth Little Duchess of Sevilla

Caroline Campbell Near Duchess of La Fête Nationale

Staley Anne Rose Duchess of Santiago de Compostela

Lauren Ludmila Beal Duchess of the United States

Regan Caroline Ewing Duchess of Fiesta de San Fermin

Tasha Josephine Beal Duchess of Mexico

Bronwyn Guion Geyer Duchess of the Dahlia

Emma Kathryn Bowden Duchess of the Alhambra

Elizabeth Anne Hill Duchess of the Sea of Cortez

Catherine Lindsay Begley McGeoch Duchess of Versailles

Laura Elise Rathjen Duchess of the Valencia Red Rose

Margaret MacIntyre Taylor Duchess of La Ville Lumière

Grace Eleanor Carter Duchess of Mardi Gras

Taylor Elizabeth Johnson Duchess of Texas

Mary Catharine McKeithen Duchess of La Tour Eiffel

Natalie Kate Rathjen Duchess of Friendship

Abbey Elizabeth Utley Duchess of the White House

Loring Cook Dalton Duchess of Highland Park

Madison Lelyn Kaminiski Duchess of the Statue of Liberty

Madison Claire Mulligan Duchess of Freedom

Reagan Elise Reid Duchess of Charleston

Alexandra Bailey Van Cleave Duchess of the Fleur-de-lis

Madeline Lauren Lynn Duchess of the Confederacy Caroline Benson McDaniel Duchess of the Loire Valley

Mary Wallace O’Brien Duchess of Savannah Virginia Byers Petty Duchess of University Park

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CONTINUED FROM 19 the Park Cities community to save the house. Following a massive fundraising campaign, the house was ready to move. “There was a picture in the paper with commuters going downtown and seeing this house on the side of the road on Central,” Adams said. With the house moved to its new location, there was one final problem: money for maintenance. That’s where La Fiesta came in. “The three of us there in the back of Jennie’s Jaguar, in about 30 minutes, came up with the concept,” Allman said. The trio remembered the old community fi esta that used to be held at Highland Park Village, so they fashioned a new one after it with six duchesses to represent the six flags of Texas. They held it under a tent in the Village parking lot with light refreshments, and the money raised supported the house as well other Park Cities-specific beneficiaries including the school district. With that, a new tradition was born. “Every year they add something else that keeps making the event meaningful,” Reeves said. “The old house is really the seed and the soul of the celebration.”

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MISSION INSPIRES KIDS TO ACHIEVE TRM programs make college attainable By Jacie Scott

Special Contributor Since 1988, Trinity River Mission has paid attention to academic advancement of underprivileged youth in West Dallas. Rosaerlinda Cisneros at This volunteer-based center provides regraduation. sources such as homework help and tutoring, volunteer opportunities, and free nutritious meals. At 6 years old, Rosaerlinda Cisneros saw it as a safe place for her and her two older brothers. Cisneros and her siblings grew up in West Dallas and attended public schools in Dallas ISD. They were raised by a single mother with limited English, so TRM’s homework help and tutoring came in handy. In middle school, she participated in Believe & Achieve, the organization’s scholarship C O U R T E SY P H O T O S program that pairs students with menLeft: Believe and Achieve 2014 grads. Right: Frances Mendez and Trinity River Mission CEO Dolores Sosa Green. tors to encourage valuable skills and expose them to post-secondary education. proud Aggie. As her mentor, Green re- graduating from high school is a lot less TRM CEO Dolores Sosa Green was G E T I N V O LV E D paired with Cisneros as her mentor. The fused to let Cisneros not try for some- than them going off to prison. That’s Dallas native joined TRM in 2005 with a thing that she obviously wanted. They what we’re trying to prevent.” In 2004, 100 percent of the students passion for disadvantaged youth because worked on college essays, FAFSA applin JUNE 7: Mission Possible cations, and SAT prep. in TRM’s programs graduated high she was once in their shoes. celebration — each participating “Some of the challenges that they face, Cisneros now has a bachelor’s degree school. Since then, they average a 98-perhigh school graduate is awarded a I faced when I was growing up,” Green in environmental geoscience. cent graduation rate with an increase in college scholarship “It was so great having somebody to post-secondary enrollment. Green hopes said. “Nobody expected me to even nJUNE 10: Moms on a Mission believe in me and support me through it,” to continue to grow the number of stubother to graduate from high school. I said Cisneros. “I was the first in my fami- dents and the programs that are implethought this would be a great place to lunch fundraiser mented. TRM is forming a partnership ly to go to a four-year university.” tell these kids, ‘Hey! I made it. You can nJUNE 19: Juneteenth Walk to make it.’” Cisneros’ story is what TRM is all with UNT Dallas to offer dual-credit Destiny Through her guidance, Texas A&M about. To date, the organization serves courses. Professors will appear onsite to University was placed on Cisneros’ radar. 561 kids, providing them the tools neces- offer courses. FIND THEM AT: She took a campus visit and fell in love. Cisneros now volunteers her free time sary to help them realize their potential. Trinityrivermission.org “I wasn’t in the top ten percent of my “There’s a need here, and we’ve got a to mentoring two students whose shoes  @TutorReadMentor class, but I was in the top 25,” Cisneros lot of work to do. It’s not the zip code it- she was once in. said. self; it’s the circumstances,” Green said. “They’ve done so much for me, so I  TutorReadMentor Highland Park Village - ParkCity Preston Hollow - June 2015 Cisneros then turned to Green, a want to give back,” Cisneros said. “The majority of our kids’ likelihood of last modified: May 11, 2015 5:35 PM Trim: 10”w x 3”h, Bleed: 10.25”w x 3.25”h, Safety: .25”

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LIVING WELL Entrepreneur Tries Healing Under the Skin By Sarah Bennett

People Newspapers Nathan Halsey never saw himself getting into the skin-care business. The Park Cities resident, originally from Corpus Christi, got his degree from Texas A&M and took a job in finance and investments. “Learning the biology and science behind it has been a learning curve, for sure,” he said. “That’s been a continuing education process.” A few things had to happen before he could become the CEO of Bellatorra Skin Care: the Ernst and Young alum first broke away from finance in 2008 with a “nutriceuticals” company that mainly focused on sleep aids and nutritional supplements. That gave him a first taste of the medicine. “I had this light-bulb moment when I said, ‘God, no one’s really doing that with skin care,’” he said. “That’s what kind of started it — bringing a different way to deliver the ingredients to skin care that no one had really done before.” Here’s the pitch: Bellatorra products release key ingredients deep into the skin over a 48-hour period. The time-release element is meant to achieve greater absorption, and therefore better results. Halsey believes it to be the differentiating factor for the products.

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Park Cities resident Nathan Halsey is the CEO of Bellatorra Skin Care. “We spent about two years on [research and design] perfecting this nanotechnology, which is like a microscopic, encapsulated method of getting the key ingredients seven to nine layers deep,” he said. Halsey brought in skin-care experts, had aestheticians test the products, and launched the products online in January. The company’s dream retailers are

Neiman Marcus, Barney’s New York, and Bergdorf Goodman. They’ve already secured a 12-month exclusive commitment with Barney’s, which will start in August, and the products will be featured in a similar store in Australia. Right now, the line includes four key products: a cleanser, an “uplifting mist,” a moisturizer, and an eye cream. Halsey plans to release a new prod-

uct each quarter once the company goes brick-and-mortar. “There are a lot of skincare brands out there,” he said. “It was a unique story that the retailers hadn’t heard before.” Even though the products are not yet in stores, Bellatorra already has some devotees. Kelly Sexton, a Houston resident who has a longstanding friendship with Halsey’s parents, began using the products when she was diagnosed with skin cancer in her lower eyelid in 2013. “I had to have surgery … and I was having these itching complications,” she said. “So I quit using what the doctor told me to use and started using Bellatorra. I went back for a checkup, and he said ‘What are you doing, because it’s healing so much faster?’” The flight attendant has since kept up her orders online and spread the word with friends. “You can’t even tell I had a scar on my eye,” she said. “I try to do the more natural products, whether in vitamins or skin care, and this fit right in with that.” And for Halsey, that’s the whole point. “I like being knowledgeable about what products we can take that help longevity and just feeling good,” he said. “Skin care is a rewarding space because if a you take something and you feel younger and look better, it transforms you on the inside, too.”

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nJennifer said these online manufacturers are only interested in profits and are not concerned with the customers’ needs. “Often the worst part is once we start talking about it, we realize that what just showed up at their house isn’t even a good fit for them or their home,” she said. INSTALLATION IS EASY nMost equipment can be installed and removed quickly without compromising the aesthetics of the home. “Most people see a picture of the stair lift and automatically assume it’s mounting to the wall,” Gordon said. n Stair lifts are actually screwed into the stair itself for increased stability. Removing the equipment only requires the holes to be filled in, or perhaps no clean-up work at all. “If the stairs have carpet, you can run a vacuum over the spot where a screw was and you’ll never know it was there,” he said.

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Special Contributor When Susan Knape noticed a weird growth on her roses, she knew something was wrong. Rose Rosette disease had infected two of the Highland Park resident’s roses. She went to Nicholson-Hardie, a nursery and garden center, and they advised her to uproot the plants so the disease wouldn’t spread. “I pulled up both of my plants,” Knape said. “That’s really all you can do. There’s no treatment and in order for it to keep from hurting other plants and spreading, you have to pull up the rose. So I lost a rose that’s probably 20 years old.” She also lost a relatively new rose and then pulled up surrounding roses just to be safe. Bob Wilson, manager of Nicholson-Hardie, has been a rose expert for nearly 30 years and said he sees Rose Rosette as a problem this spring in the Park Cities. Knape said she saw it among her neighbors. Rose Rosette is a virus that gets into roses through vector mites. The vector mites can float through the air, or come through cloth or even dog fur. Wilson said Rose Rosette disease can be recognized when a stem is “very heavy clustered

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Hari-Mari team mixes footwear, philanthropy By Sarah Bennett

People N ewspapers Jeremy Stewart had no idea that the friend he made on the St. Mark’s playground in fifth grade would eventually be one of his two business partners — and that his wife would be the other. Today, the St. Mark’s graduate runs Hari Mari, a flip-flop company, with Highland Park High School graduates John Veatch and Lila Stewart, who happens to be Jeremy’s wife. The unusual name traces back to Jeremy and Lila’s time abroad — specifically, the couple lived in Indonesia from 2007 to 2010, while Jeremy worked on a documentary and Lila volunteered at an orphanage. Hari means “sun” in Indonesian, while mari means “sea” in Latin. Put the two together, and you’ve got a flip-flop company. “In 2010, when we moved back, we were just shopping for flip-flops and couldn’t bring ourselves to buy the same brand that we’d been wearing for 15 years,” Lila said. “That’s kind of when the light went off.” Once they decided to start the compa-

Flip-flops show local Mavericks pride. ny — which officially launched in 2012 at St. Bernard Sports and online, the Stewarts were particular about what they wanted. For one, Jeremy was tired of only seeing flip-flops for men in black and brown — he wanted more color. And then there’s the issue of that annoying middle toe piece. “We found that there were just iterations of black and brown flip flops that were maybe comfortable, but there were also iterations of colorful flip flops that weren’t comfortable,” Jeremy said. “We never could find something that kind of married the two together.” So, they developed a memory-foam

center post that is patent-pending. In addition to that, the all-rubber outsoles provide strong traction in water, while the wave-pattern siping is designed to wick away excess moisture. But Hari Maris aren’t just about comfort and style. There’s also a social enterprise side: the company donates $3 for every pair purchased to fight pediatric cancer. Though the company is young and very much small-town based, it's already found quite a bit of success — Hari Maris have been featured in magazines such as Nylon Guys, Entrepreneur, and Garden and Gun. They’ve even been featured on the NBC morning show “Today.” “That’s the coolest part, when you see somebody out in the wild wearing your product, and you think, ‘I made that,’” Veatch said. It’s not bad for a flip-flop company in a landlocked city. “We felt there was a huge disconnect between the way most of these flip-flop companies speak to their audiences and who their audiences actually are,” Jeremy said. “They’re speaking to everybody in terms of a surfer, a beach volleyball player, someone on a stand-up paddle board in the ocean, and that really doesn’t resonate with kids in Dallas.” In addition to their presence in stores such as St. Bernard Sports, the Hari Mari crew is creating more of a storefront space in its Haskell Avenue warehouse. “We know we’ve only scratched the surface,” Jeremy said.

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Oldham Hopes Studio Store Carves a Niche By Jacie Scott

Special Contributor Highland Park residents Brad Oldham and Christy Coltrin are the masterminds behind Brad Oldham International Inc. The husband-and-wife duo combines separate skill sets to create sculptures, jewelry, and architectural features. But if you ask Oldham and Coltrin, they will say they’re in the business of telling stories through sculpture. Take SkaterBIRD, for example. SkaterBIRD, created by Oldham, is perched on the 13th story of the building at 1200 Ross Avenue. The 3,500-pound stainless steel sculpture oversees the heart of Dallas, visible from Woodall Rodgers Freeway, Ross Avenue, and Greenville Avenue. For these two, SkaterBIRD is about boldly looking forward and taking leaps of faith. “There was a time when Brad and I were looking at each other and going, ‘OK. What are we gonna do with our business?’” said Coltrin. “If we’re gonna do it, we’re going to put everything we have in this.” Like their SkaterBIRD, the duo is blazing forward to its next chapter. Last October, the company said goodbye to its space in the Design District and set up shop on the ground level of 1200 Ross Avenue. With this new space, Oldham and Coltrin hope to offer more accessibility to fine artwork. The new headquarters’ fulllength windows provide a welcoming view, showcasing both large sculptures and smaller

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sharing their stories with us, and that’s what makes it fun.” Meanwhile, Coltrin launched her first collection of gifts, Tiny Sparks, which are small, talisman-like pieces. Coltrin designed each piece and crafted the story behind each one. The price point on these tiny works of art is lower, as well as a few other pieces in the store, allowing buyers the direct access to an Oldham original and a piece of Dallas. “We have sculpture and artwork around the city and we want this to be a real Dallas

place,” Coltrin said. “You can come and get a gift that’s made here that has a story to it, but has a little bit of Dallas pride in it.” With their new location, Oldham and Coltrin they hope to be apart of the fabric of the downtown neighborhood. Further, the couple wants to see their work in other locations across the city, state, and nation. But, it all starts at 1200 Ross Avenue. Just look for SkaterBIRD, and he will lead you to them.

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Riding Instructor Still Horsing Around After 40 Years By Todd Jorgenson

People Newspapers You might not recognize it amid the urban sprawl of today, but Becky Brown still can envision the area around Hillcrest Road and Park Lane as horse country. It was the perfect neighborhood for a teenager in the 4-H club at Hillcrest High School to sneak through barbed-wire fences for a peaceful ride after school. “It was all pasture across the street,” said Brown, whose parents bought her first horse for

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$175. “I would just keep my bridle in my locker.” The open fields around the old Caruth Farm have long since given way to NorthPark Center and other development, but those bonding moments between girl and equine instilled a passion in Brown that continues today. Brown has been teaching horsemanship for more than 40

years, and has been running her own school since 1988. Many of her current students grew up not far from where she did, and have followed their older relatives into riding. Brown gives lessons in riding either for pleasure or for competition in such disciplines as dressage, eventing, or show jumping. “It doesn’t matter if they want to compete or if they just want this to be part of their lives,” said Brown, who still occasionally competes in dressage. “They get the same attention.” Jennifer Murray and her two young daughters started taking

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lessons from Brown after they moved to the Park Cities from New York about five years ago. “It was the kind of riding that I liked to do in New York. She’s great with adults and kids both,” Murray said. “All of what she’s teaching is consistent with what the best in the dressage and show-jumping world would tell you. She’s really well-schooled in proper riding techniques.” Brown earned her certification in 1973 from the Talland School of Equitation in England. She later graduated from Texas Tech and went into the restaurant business with her husband, who founded Barbec’s near White Rock Lake. Since 2008, when she outgrew the farm in Dallas where she taught for 17 years, Brown has been based at BuckBranch Farm in Wilmer, where she stables about 15 school horses. The 130-acre facility has been owned by the same family since 1876.

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Group Aims to Shape Preston Center's Future By Todd Jorgenson

People Newspapers It might not be quite so much fun, but members of the task force charged with steering future development around Preston Center are partying like it’s 1989. That year is when the city of Dallas adopted recommendations from the Preston Center Area Transition Study, which focused on Jennifer new zoning reguGates lations in the area in response to new city zoning codes. As part of that study, recommendations included a comprehensive Laura Miller traffic study for Preston Center every five years. In addition, the second level of the city-owned public parking garage in the aging retail center would be reserved for employees of the surrounding businesses. But no traffic studies were ever commissioned. And nobody followed through on enforcement of the suggested parking guidelines. Flash forward 26 years, and the 13 members of the Northwest Highway and Preston Road Area Plan Task Force are discussing — you guessed it — what to do about traffic and the parking garage. “I don’t know why it didn’t happen. That’s disconcerting,”

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said Dallas council member Jennifer Gates, who is leading the development of the area plan. “But we don’t need to point fingers. We need to come together and move forward.” The task force includes residents and business leaders from Preston Center and the surrounding areas. Their basic goal during the next several months is to develop a vision to shape the future of the area. Their most recent meeting was held in front of an overflow crowd at St. Michael and All Angels Episcopal Church, just down the hall from where famed author Fannie Flagg was signing books. And it was quite a page-turner. Here are some of the other highlights: nThe skybridge proposed by Crow Holdings to link the second floor of a retail building to the top level of the garage, in order to lure a Tom Thumb supermarket to the space, is still a very contentious issue. Task-force members seem split on the idea, just like the members of the Dallas Plan Com-

mission, who gave the concept their endorsement by a narrow 7-6 vote in March. A council vote on the special-use permit likely will be set for early June. nTxDOT will begin construction next year on its project to install additional left-turn lanes in both directions from Northwest Highway on to Preston. The effort will narrow the medians and involve an upgrade and replacement of the current traffic signals. It will be similar to the fledgling project at the intersection of Preston and Royal Lane, hopefully with much better execution. nSince no city funds are being used for the study, Gates is still soliciting $100,000 from the community to supplement the $250,000 already put forth by the North Central Texas Council of Governments. That would help to hire a consultant and cover other fees. The task force is planning to have several more meetings focused on land use and traffic flow during the next several months, at least three of which will incorporate large community forums. “All of these concerns about traffic and parking that have not been addressed for 30 years need to be addressed by this group,” said former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, who represents one neighborhood on the task force. “I think we can do it. We’re desperate to find solutions to make this area more livable.” Email todd.jorgenson@ peoplenewspapers.com

EVOLUTION OF AN EYESORE The 800-space, bi-level parking garage in the middle of the Preston Center development has been considered both an enhancement and a deterrent to the surrounding properties, depending upon who you ask. It certainly has an intriguing history.

time of heavy office development as the city implemented a new zoning code. It examined traffic impact and devised a management plan that was never implemented, including another push to limit second-level parking to employees.

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Dallas acquired the land that now contains the garage through a quitclaim deed, allowing the city to license the parking lot. But the surrounding merchants retained their access rights.

1986

A parking study was commissioned by 15 property owners in Preston Center to determine the quantity and use of available parking and suggest solutions. Among the recommendations was a re-striping of the top level for employee parking and stricter enforcement of two-hour limits.

1989

The Preston Center Special Area Study came during a

In an effort to sell the property, the city sued to see if it could be developed with another use without the approval of all of the surrounding property owners. But a judge ruled that the land must only be used for sidewalks, streets, and parking. The city still owns the garage, but is not responsible for maintenance.

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One property owner, Crow Holdings, filed a request for a special-use permit to allow for a skybridge connecting the second level of the garage to a specific retail building on the west side of the complex. The case has not yet been considered by the Dallas City Council.

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pring is commencement for many colleges, and no doubt we will have a spate of celebrities and politicians exhorting the graduates in political-correct speak. The cover of Time magazine showed an aerial view of a black protest movement, probably Baltimore, with the boldened “2015” struck out and with “1968” in its stead. Nope. I was an undergraduate at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., in 1968, which has been dubbed by historians as a turning point in American history — a watershed year. College harkens back to nostalgic times, usually. When I skipped on to campus in the fall of 1967, I came with a wardrobe of shirtwaist dresses with coordinating hairbows and dainty shoes. To exit the only women’s dorm, coeds had to don a raincoat if wearing shorts or pants. If we missed curfew during the week (10 p.m.), or on weekends (midnight), we were dunned late minutes and could be grounded. Shorthaired males in coats and ties brought a corsage to us for football games. That December, I crooned on my date’s shoulders by the stage as Otis Redding belted out “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay.” His plane went down after that concert, and the Motown sound pretty much soon after. Spring semester saw the beginnings of the Vietnam anti-war protests with students picketing the ROTC and throwing Dow Chemical off campus when it came recruiting. Johnny Cash sang patriotic songs under an American flag to support the war while a few radical students burned their draft cards. While I was listening to the chancellor of Columbia University in a panel discussion, he got a call and left the stage — his administration building was being taken over by students demanding an end to all research pertaining to industries that were linked to the war. In Berkeley, the Free Speech movement led to protests and takeovers of buildings as the leaders demanded an end to paternalistic practices. Much to the chagrin of many parents, our proactive chancel-

LEN BOURLAND lor immediately abolished dress codes and hours, and allowed students to move off campus. Student health started dispensing birth-control pills in keeping with the “free love” movement that was emanating from San Francisco. Then in April of my freshman year, just down the road in Memphis, Martin Luther King was assassinated. Immediately, all hell broke loose on the myriad nearby black campuses, with campus rioting and buildings set afire. The city became eerily quiet as tanks and national guardsmen rolled down the streets and surrounded our nervous campus among others. Because the voting age had been lowered to 18, presidential candidates and political newsmakers arrived in droves.

"IT WOULD HAVE BEEN UNTHINKABLE TO HAVE 'SAFE SPACE S' FOR THO SE OFFENDED BY DEBATE , AS IS THE PR ACTICE IN C OLLEGE CL AS SROOMS TODAY." Sen. Al Gore Sr. pranced on a white horse. William Kunstler, who was defending the Chicago Seven, popped by. Black Panther Eldridge Cleaver was on the lam from Cuba hiding out on the Fisk campus, it was reported. The campus chaplain led a candlelight peace vigil to the Capitol building downtown. Aspiring vice president Spiro Agnew (later to be elected and resign in disgrace) came to promote Nixon, while Democratic candidate Bobby Kennedy drew an overflow crowd in May talking about “powah to the people.” In June, he too was assassinated. Bob Dylan was singing “The Times, They Are a Changing.”

And change they did. My parents reluctantly allowed me to do a semester abroad in ’69 where “The Movement” — as European protest was dubbed — was in full swing. Amsterdam was the heart of the hippy movement, Carnaby Street in London the Mod movement. I got into some tear gas by running into a young communist Labor protest in Rome (it was still the height of the Cold War) and couldn’t cross the Seine in Paris when students there decided to strike. Everywhere people angrily denounced America because of Vietnam, while paradoxically congratulating us for landing men on the moon. Bell-bottoms and clogs and impossibly short dresses and boots replaced the sorority girl look. When I returned home, all the boys had hair down to their shoulders; strobe lights, psychedelic music, and more than just booze floated around the frat houses. Classrooms were alive with debates, particularly in the popular philosophy and poli-sci courses. It would have been unthinkable to have “safe spaces” for those offended by debate, as is the practice in college classrooms today. Our only social media was the classroom or dorm room. So is 2015 a flashback to 1968? Hardly. Today the technology of cell-phone videos is spotlighting white police brutality toward black male suspects while the technology of body cameras may be part of the solution. Bad cops? Boot ’em. They were around beating up white protestors outside the Democratic convention in Chicago and at Kent State. It’s power gone amuck. Racism? Certainly prejudice and fear of a subset of poor, undereducated often black youth who turn to violence out of directionless lives exists. But when for seven years we’ve had a black president and attorney general, in places where police brutality has occurred often blacks are the mayor, police commissioner, or prosecutors, the paradigm of the '60s doesn’t wash. For that analogy, let’s make it about being “right on” with “power to the people” by scrapping expensive failed government programs and discoursing honestly instead of pandering to political correctness. LenBourlandcanbereached atlen@lenbourland.com.

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Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate is thrilled to present an unparalleled estate on 1.1 acres in the heart of Highland Park. The home at 4700 St. Johns Drive, which the Gullutto+Barnes Group is offering for $15,985,000, boasts approximately 13,000 square feet of exquisite interiors, yet each room feels intimate. From the Syrian limestone of the striking façade to the one-of-a-kind mosaic backsplash in the kitchen, the quality of design and craftsmanship knows no bounds. Several hallways were designed to serve as art galleries. The home’s six bedrooms, seven full bathrooms, and three half-baths are augmented by an outdoor kitchen with a custom mosaic floor, a gym, a salon, and a media room that doubles as a safe room. That said, you would be hard pressed to find a safer location, as Highland Park’s police and firefighters are headquartered literally across the street. To schedule a tour, contact Jarrad Barnes at jarrad@ jarradbarnes.com or 214-797-1900.

Recently, a Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty agent noticed that someone from Zurich was viewing one of his listings in Dallas. Within a few weeks, the buyer had purchased the home for his children, who were attending school at SMU. The client was familiar with Sotheby’s reputation for luxury homes, and he wanted the highest quality professional service for his purchase. That’s the power of a globally recognized brand. Sotheby’s International Realty is the world’s largest luxury real estate company, with over 730 top offices in more than 50 countries, according to Sothebysrealty.com. That worldwide leadership position means that buyers and sellers moving into and throughout the area recognize the Sotheby’s International Realty brand for its legacy of integrity and excellence—both internationally and locally in DFW neighborhoods. Briggs Freemans Sotheby’s International Realty leads the Metroplex in sales of luxury properties over both the $1 million and $2 million price. Our global real estate knowledge and leadership position means your listing is being handled

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Mavericks Coach Carlisle’s PC Home In the sports world, off season is a great time for making adjustments—fine tuning for the perfect fit. Mavericks Coach Rick Carlisle is doing just that with a move downtown and a “for sale” sign in the yard of his stunning University Park home. The five-bedroom, Frenchinspired home was built to by Woldt Homes and is within walking distance of Hyer Elementary. “There are many great details that make this home very comfortable and easy to live in,” says Jamie Adams of Briggs Freeman Sotheby’s International Realty, who is the listing Broker for the Carlisle’s home, offered at $3,134,700. “The open concept kitchen and family room create a great flow for entertaining or just watching movies with the family, and the outdoor living space has a kitchen and a separate seating area with a pergola and fireplace so it can be used year round.” The property also features white oak wood floors, rustic beams, arched doorways, crown molding, plenty of built-ins

The French-inspired home is listed by Jamie Adams for $3,134,700. and a sweeping staircase with a custom iron railing. Neutral tones and high end finishes make this home light, bright and incredibly inviting. For more information see Jamieadams.com or call Jamie at 817-235-4535.

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Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate is proud to present a rare opportunity for waterfront living at White Rock Lake. The villa at 4636 Chapel Hill Road, which the Gromatzky Group is offering for $7,495,000, was inspired by a Tuscan farmhouse village concept and designed by architect Charles Travis. All rooms are sensitively placed to emphasize the special relationship to the water. The kitchen, family room, and game room all open to the loggias, outdoor dining and cooking areas, and infinity pool/spa. Intricately landscaped and terraced garden retreats, cut stone steps, and walkways to the lake all contribute to the sense of tranquility.

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Superior finishes on this jewel in Highland Park! Listed with Nora Ling Lane of Allie Beth Allman & Associates, 3317 Dartmouth is an architecturally significant home, perfect for empty nesters that love to entertain! A “lock and leave” with minimal maintenance. The current owners took it to the next level with so many improvements including additional hardwood floors, new “smart house” features including sound and phone systems, plus phone-controlled Honeywell thermostats. Accessible from an elevator or from the grand circular staircase, the 900-square-foot basement is an entertainment haven with a dining/wine room and a cozy seating vignette sectioned off from the dining area. The ceiling has been hand painted after the Villa Cicogna Mozzoni in Italy….breathtaking! Also on this lower level is a fully-equipped kitchen with two dishwashers, full-size wine refrigerator, four-burner Wolf range, and Sub-Zero refrigerator/freezer with direct access to the elevator. The living room is fabulously appointed with beautiful cabinets and molding details throughout, wet bar with refrigerator drawers and ice maker, beautiful formal dining room, and gorgeous gourmet kitchen that encompasses a seating area with a wood burning fireplace; all overlooking the outdoor living oasis. The private study

The five-bedroom, Preston Hollow home at 9446 Hathaway Street is listed by Tom Hughes for $2,849,000.

The owner’s bedroom suite — one of five in the main house — has views of the lake, pool, and grounds. Another key feature is the watch tower, which leads to a balcony with sweeping views of the grounds, lake, and marina. To schedule a tour, contact Kimberlee Gromatzky at kimg@daveperrymiller.com or 214-802-5025. Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate is an Ebby Halliday Company with five locations that specialize in marketing the Park Cities, Preston Hollow, Uptown, Lakewood, East Dallas, and Kessler Park. Dave Perry-Miller Real Estate is a member of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World and Luxury Portfolio International.

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Ebby Halliday is the broker of choice for many of the area’s mostaccomplished real estate agents – and is now “home” to Bernice Edelman, one of North Texas’ best-known Realtors. Ms. Edelman recently joined Ebby’s Preston Center Office, managed by Ginger Gill. “I am honored to be working with Bernice Edelman Bernice,” Gill says. “She is a veteran of the Dallas market who brings the knowledge, experience and skills Ebby clients expect and deserve.” Edelman, a Top Producer at her former brokerage who specializes in the south of LBJ markets – including Preston Hollow, the Park Cities, Lakewood and Turtle Creek – as well as the suburbs of Dallas, says that her association with Ebby allows her to offer an exceptional level of service. “I decided to make the move to Ebby to increase the services offered to my buyers and sellers,” Edelman says. “This move benefits my clients through increased advertising, increased marketing, an increased number of agents working on their behalf, and the latest in technology.” “And, as an Ebby Associate, I enjoy the strength of the largest in-house Relocation Division in Dallas-Fort Worth,” she says. “With all of the corporations and individuals moving to North Texas, Ebby offers the perfect setting in which to grow my business and better serve my clients.” To contact Ms. Edelman, call 214-384-7700 or e-mail bernice@ebby.com.

Yikes! OMG! This can’t be true, my house has not increased in value by that much! This is the homeowners reaction to mail from the Dallas County Appraisal District. True, values have gone up considerably, more than ever before in this market; therefore, the DCAD increases the taxable value of homes. What to do about it? There are various ways to tackle this issue, but do act. Outlined are ways to approach the situation. First, submit a protest including what you think taxable value of your house is. Deadline is May 31; therefore, if you decide against protesting, just cancel. For opinion on value, contact a Premier Producer agent (see page 35) who will give you a comparative market analysis of sales in your immediate area and give you additional suggestions. Once you file for a protest, DCAD will give you a PIN to review values in your neighborhood . Secondly, consider how you would want to challenge the value. Texas law now requires appraisal districts to offer online property tax protests. Another option is to take your documents to the appraisal district office and ask to see an appraiser, who will review your documents and determine if your opinion is valid. If a reduction is appropriate, great, if not, you still may ask for a hearing and continue your protest. You may also set an appointment for a panel of volunteers and a DCAD appraiser to review if your value is too high. The fourth approach is to hire a Property Tax Consultant, who gets paid in various ways: contingent on their success, a flat fee, etc. Thirdly, remember taxing authorities do not set tax rates until September, so contact your political representatives and let them know how you feel about a raise in rates: city, county and school.

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extraordinary lives | extraordinary homes Connecting to Capitol Hill Yet technology is flattening barriers, particularly in regard to civic engagement. And as people now have access to 24/7 news outlets, they are becoming more aware of how policy affects everyday life. This, in turn, causes more people to be interested in and attuned to changes in policy (and politics in general). Ory and his team are using Phone2Action’s tools to help turn that interest into action. Phone2Action’s first campaign made it possible for thousands of people across five Southern states to email their elected officials in support of improving educational options for low-income African American youth. “Watching people take action at the first rally was a magical moment,” Ory says. “We knew we were on to something big.” Jeb Ory created Phone2Action to help constituents connect with their elected leaders.

t St. Johns, St. Marks, and Highland Park High School, Jeb Ory learned how to think critically, write well, and articulate his vision—an education he took with him to the wild town of Washington, D.C, where he and his co-founders run the award-wining company Phone2Action.

In 2015, Phone2Action will roll out new technology and continue supporting campaigns led by organizations as diverse as the American Heart Association, which is based in Dallas, and the Enlisted Association of the National Guard (EANGUS). The majority of the adults in the United States have smartphones and yet more than half can’t name one of their senators. But Phone2Action is working to change all of that, one text message at a time.

Phone2Action is a digital platform that helps organizations gather supporters and connect them directly with elected officials on the city, state, and federal levels. “Officials want to hear from their constituents,” Ory says. “And constituents should exercise their rights of holding officials accountable.” The problem is that the two often operate separate from each other.

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7431 Inwood Road | $799,000 Spacious townhome living, this property offers 3,800 sq. ft. including three bedrooms, three expansive living areas, and four fireplaces.The corner unit is complete with an attached courtyard. Entertaining is made easy with a butler-catering area, full wet bar and open living concept fully equipped with granite andViking stainless steel appliances.

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4215 Shorecrest Drive | $3,999,000 Set on over a half acre in Bluffview is this exquisite Contemporary by Mark Molthan. Built in 2010 featuring design brilliance, subtle charm, commanding presence, seamless entertaining, striking amenities, amazing finishes, outdoor living, impressive chef’s kitchen, basement, wrapping room and downstairs master suite. Visit beckyfrey.com for more.

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UP teen lands with UT after sport switch By Todd Jorgenson

People Newspapers Thousands of kids in this state dream of someday playing football for the University of Texas. Matthew Merrick was not one of them. The University Park resident grew up with aspirations of one day playing in the NBA, not the NFL. He relied on his strong arm more for 3-pointers than six-pointers. Since third grade, Merrick played for the Texas Titans, a national powerhouse summer basketball organization that has produced Los Angeles Lakers forward Julius Randle and other future stars. He was on a path similar to those of his teammates. Then came Merrick’s sophomore year at Cistercian, when he beat out an incumbent two-year starter for the quarterback job and led the Hawks to the SPC football playoffs. Suddenly, the focus shifted from the hardwood to the gridiron. “I didn’t realize I was that talented at the time,” said Merrick, who sat out most of his freshman season after suffering a concussion. “I just enjoyed playing.” A year later, Merrick reluctantly decided to give up basketball, both for his school and the Titans, in order to focus on his future in football. “Everything was progressing in the direction for him to be a Division I quarterback, but he was playing basketball all the time,” said Cistercian head coach Steve McCarthy. “Two days after the season ended, he started bouncing a basketball and didn’t pick up a football again until August.” However, after his junior season, Merrick began working with Kevin Murray, a former Texas A&M standout who operates the Air 14 Quarterback Academy. He attended some national camps, improved his throwing velocity by about 10 mph (as three of his receivers with broken fingers can attest), and bulked up his 6-foot3 frame from about 185 to 202 pounds. “I really started getting recruited

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Merrick passed for 2,404 yards and 33 touchdowns as a senior at Cistercian.

when people came and saw me throw live,” said Merrick, who has attended Cistercian since fifth grade. “It was risky of me to quit basketball and just pursue football. It definitely paid off.” Word started getting around among major college programs, who swarmed to practices and games at the small Catholic school in Irving that had just one Division I player in the previous 23 years. Besides Merrick, they were there to watch standout teammates Dare Odenyingbo (who signed with Vanderbilt in February) and offensive lineman Nick Skalak (who signed with Missouri). “Matthew was kind of later on the scene and had to jump through some hoops to get noticed,” McCarthy said. “Most of the schools who wanted him had already offered somebody else.” Then Merrick became the all-time

leader in passing yards and total yards for the Hawks after a big senior season that saw him throw for 2,404 yards and 33 touchdowns. He had eight scoring passes in a win over Houston St. John’s, and five in the second half against Plano John Paul II. That attracted the interest of the coaching staff at Texas, and particularly renowned quarterbacks coach Shawn Watson, who helped develop current Minnesota Vikings quarterback Teddy Bridgewater while he was an assistant at Louisville. The Longhorns made an offer in November for Merrick to join the program as a grayshirt recruit. His grayshirt offer from Texas means that Merrick’s scholarship won’t begin until January and that the upcoming

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Homes in the $1.2 million-$1.6 million range are in high demand in the Park Cities. The home at 4331 Lorraine Avenue is listed by Seth Pogoloff for $3,495,000. The Park Cities are a perennial favorite for buyers looking to invest in an established neighborhood with beautiful parks and boulevards, exemplary public schools and a comfortable environment. Last year, the average price for a home in the Park Cities rose to over $1 million, and right now agents are seeing greatest demand in the $1.2 million-$1.6 million range. Right now, homes in the Park Cities are ranging from 30-45 days on market. The

average price for a home in Highland Park is $1,925,832. In University Park, the average sales price is $1,183,155. Agents are reporting growing interest from Park Cities residents looking to move from a large family home to a smaller, postparenting home that still has top-of-the-line amenities like a chef’s kitchen and flexible entertaining spaces with less overall square footage and fewer maintenance demands.

season won’t count against his college eligibility. But there’s still a chance that he could be upgraded to a full scholarship before this fall if one opens up. Merrick is so confident that Texas provides the right fit that he turned down full scholarship offers from other major programs — Florida and Wake Forest among them — for a non-guaranteed spot with the Longhorns. He’ll enroll and begin taking classes this fall. “I saw some more value with UT, whether it’s starting now or starting in January,” Merrick said. “It gives me six more months to mature, which is a good thing.” Merrick said playing basketball helped him develop quick feet and hand-eye coordination that have benefited his development as a quarterback. McCarthy said it contributed to his mental toughness as well. “He played at such a high level at such a young age,” McCarthy said. “He’s a very level-headed kid with a very evenkeeled mentality. Competition doesn’t faze him at all.”

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Highland Park defeated The Woodlands 10-4 on May 10 to win its first Texas High School Lacrosse League title since 2012 and sixth overall. The Scots also won the Division II championship.

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The Highland Park tandem of Elizabeth Porter and Chandler Carter holds a plaque after winning the Class 6A girls doubles title at the UIL tennis tournament on May 14 in College Station.

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Adair threw a 1-0 shutout in the first game of Highland Park’s bidistrict playoff sweep of Irving MacArthur, then was one of the hitting standouts with a double and a triple the next day.

In her final high school competition, Alkire finished second in the all-around standings at the state meet in Saginaw. She placed third on floor exercise and sixth on uneven bars.

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HPHS Spring Signees Headed Coast to Coast By Todd Jorgenson

People Newspapers You could forgive Danny Leland if he chose the Baylor track and field program solely based on its tradition, which includes a handful of Olympic gold medalists like Michael Johnson and Jeremy Wariner. That’s important for sure, yet the Highland Park High School senior found a more personal connection that prompted him to run with the Bears over other major programs. “There was something about Baylor that struck me,” said Leland, a decorated middle-distance runner for the Scots. “They’ve got a proven track record with their athletes, but it seemed like they really cared about me as a person.” Leland was one of several HP athletes recognized during a recent ceremony for signing or committing to college athletic programs during the spring semester. Leland’s teammate, Pearson Feagans, signed with Villanova, where he might compete in both sprints and jumping events. He’s won three district titles with the Scots, including this year in the triple jump. He also placed third in that event

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From left: Cooper Chimbel, Lauren Hansford, Ben Bocarra, Pearson Feagans, Reid Alexander, Danny Leland, Andrew Frost, Lauren Titus, and Gabby Crank. at the Texas Relays. “It’s a great school with a great track program,” Feagans said. “Villanova was the only school I visited, and I committed. It was pretty random. It’s weird how things work out sometimes.” On the girls side, Gabby Crank will be reunited on the track team at the Uni-

Katie Bell Junior, softball

Owen Seebold Sophomore, lacrosse

Bell, a left-hander, pitched a shutout in the second game of a Class 6A bi-district playoff series against Irving, which lifted Highland Park to its first playoff series win in program history.

Seebold, a Syracuse University commit, scored five goals as Highland Park cruised past Allen 15-6 in the state semifinals before surging past The Woodlands for the title the following day.

versity of Texas with former HP standout Mary Beth Hamilton. The duo ran together on a 4x200 relay team at the 2013 state meet. “I’m excited to run with Mary Beth again,” said Crank, who will be a preferred walk-on with the Longhorns and will enter the school’s business honors

program. “Having a great teammate that I know already, and a lot of other friends who go there and love it, was definitely a factor.” Prior to this year, Crank already had been to the state meet three times, winning two medals, and she set the school record earlier this year in the triple jump. She also is a two-time state champion in cross country. In football, HP receiver Andrew Frost gave his commitment to Air Force, where he’ll join teammate Nick Waterman. After signing day in February, Falcons coaches called Frost and offered him a spot after some shuﬄing left an opening on the roster. Lauren Titus, who stars for the HP girls lacrosse club team, will play as a walk-on at American University in Washington, D.C. Two HP rowers also were recognized, as coxswain Lauren Hansford will attend Boston College while Ben Boccara is headed to Columbia. Both compete for the Dallas United Crew club team. Two other athletes also were part of the celebration, including golfer Reid Alexander (Sewanee) and tennis player Cooper Chimbel (Hendrix).

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t was a moment of pure genius when Blake Andrews decided to combine the TOMS Shoes’ model (Buy One, Give One) with the highly philanthropic world of real estate. Andrews’ social good company Give Back Homes provides marketing services for its network of real estate agents, mortgage brokers, home builders and interior designers who are committed to donating money to build homes in places of need. Prior to this venture, Andrews worked for TOMS Shoes for three years and saw how a simple pair of shoes could transform a child’s life. Several years later when he and his wife, Trisha, were looking to buy a home in California their Realtor, Following the TOMS Shoes social entrepreneurship model, Give Back Homes allows home buyers to contribute to houses for others. new to the business, was looking for a way to distinguish himself from hundreds of other quo. They want to know companies are doing agents. It was then that Andrews realized the more than simply donating funds; they want potential to pair those in the housing market with those in serious to know that companies are giving something need of housing. tangible back. “People love working with people who care,” Andrews says. “It’s powerful to watch an agent share his generosity with a client and have a home built in his/her name. It brings the client into this beautiful story.”

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3435 Normandy Avenue | $999,000 Clean-lined, unique three bedroom, three and a half bath home offers ample natural light, floor to ceiling windows, and high ceilings. Beautiful glass doors open to a tranquil outdoor covered patio space. Fully updated with a light, white and bright feel, this property comes with a well equipped kitchen with walk-in pantry, and butler-catering capabilities.

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3210 Beverly Drive | $2,825,000 Swim, cook, dine and entertain beautifully all year long in this lush outdoor living area, heated pool and waterfall spa--or relax and enjoy the view from the master bedroom’s shaded second level porch.

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